Mercury

c. 1523/1524

Parmigianino

Artist, Parmese, 1503 - 1540

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mrs. Alice Steiner

  • Dimensions

    overall: 14.5 x 10.3 cm (5 11/16 x 4 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.79.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marquis C. de Valori (Lugt 2500); Jacques Petit-Hory, Paris, by 1984; Mrs. Alice Steiner; gift to the NGA, 1987.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

Bibliography

1984

  • De Grazia, Diane. Correggio and His Legacy, Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings. Exhibition catalogue: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984: 154, under no. 42, fig. 42a.

2000

  • Bambach, Carmen, et al. Correggio and Parmigianino. Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue: British Museum, London, 2000: 112, under no. 69.

Inscriptions

in later hand, upper left in brown ink: 175 (?); in later hand, lower center verso in graphite, circled: J (?)

Wikidata ID

Q64618807

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